by Charles Hatfield, London 1734Of plain tapering form with moulded borders and fruit-wood handle, the slightly domed cover with small knop finial, engraved with a coat of arms, height 11cm, weight 5.23oz.

Footnotes

The lozenge is for a maiden lady of the FINCH family - a very long established Kent family of lawyers, one of whom was created a baronet in 1611. The head of the family, in due course, became Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham.

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